State of the Climate 2016

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2016 started at the peak of a powerful El Nino event, and with memories of the Paris Climate agreement freshly reached in 2015, both of which helped set the stage for the way climate and discussions about climate played out this year. It ended with speculation about how a Trump presidency might change the political stage, the Paris agreement ratified and the certainty that this year has been the warmest at least in the historical record. Science in Action concludes the year with an overview of the state of the climate, and what the prospects are for future climate change. Taking part: Dr Richard Betts, of the UK Met Office Professor Ralph Keeling, of the University of California San Diego Dr Friederike Otto, of the Oxford University Environmental Change Institute Dr Ted Scambos, Senior Scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center Professor Corinne Le Quere, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, University of East Anglia Dr Autun Purser, Alfred Wegener Institute Photo credit: 'Tobias Vonnahme, MPI', picture taken October 2016 at 85- 87 degrees North from the Polarstern icebreaker Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Deborah Cohen